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Mar 21, 2024 · CHASING BEAUTY: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, by Natalie Dykstra. Bright, impetuous and obsessed with beautiful things, Isabella Stewart Gardner led a life out of a Gilded Age novel. Born ...
Mar 26, 2024 · According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry." Readers will be glad that Anderson eventually turned to writing prose, since the well-told anecdotes and memorable character sketches are what make it a page-turner.
Apr 1, 2024 · “Copiously researched and engagingly written, ‘Chasing Beauty’ is biography at its best: a vivid, empathic portrait of an extraordinary woman,” said Caroline Weber, author of “Proust’s ...
Chasing Beauty Reviews. BOSTON.COM announced CHASING BEAUTY as its APRIL BOOK CLUB PICK. “A vivid portrait of the life and ambitions of one of the most famous Bostonians in history . . . Dykstra is just the writer and researcher to do justice to this story . . . Her thoroughly researched account of Gardner’s life is sure to be a hit whether ...
Bernard Berenson, leading connoisseur of the Italian Renaissance, was her art dealer. From award-winning author Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty is the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the nation and the world—a tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention.
Mar 26, 2024 · Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra has an overall rating of Positive based on 5 book reviews.
Mar 26, 2024 · An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabella’s wishes in the exact placements she initially curated.
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